If the Senate follows suit, and I've no reason to believe that they won't, I'll be 59 years old when the Voting Rights Act expires. (That's assuming victimhood becomes a political loser sometime in the next 25 years.) A person born when the Act was first passed in 1965 will be 66 years old. Every […]
Yesterday a Houston court ruled that former Rep. Tom DeLay's recent move to Virginia was a coldly calculated political move to make sure that the GOP would hold his Houston-area seat. DeLay could withdraw from the race, but then Republicans couldn't replace him on the ballot. By moving to Virginia, DeLay made himself ineligible -- […]
It's such an old, lame joke that it doesn't even cause you to crack a smile anymore when you hear it. How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. Earlier this week Brian Bilbray was sworn in to replace disgraced Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham and it didn't take him long […]
If you missed Andrew McCarthy's piece yesterday at National Review Online and reporter Byron York's piece today, then you really ought to check them out. The picture painted by the two articles is one of the House as an institution believing it is above the law. McCarthy points out that the House can either Impeach […]
I caught the Fox News report on Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing and I must confess that it tested my self control. You knew you weren't going to get any semblance of balance when the hearing is entitled "RECKLESS JUSTICE: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?" Seriously, why even use a […]
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller and some undetermined number of senior justice department officials have threatened to resign if President Bush is fool enough to return the documents seized in the search of Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson's Capitol Hill office. Good. Somebody gets it.
For the June 6 Special Election for California's 50th Congressional District (disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old seat), Hoystory reluctantly endorses Democrat Francine Busby. Today was the final straw. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's outrage at the FBI search of Rep. William Jefferson's office wasn't bad enough, but now President Bush has ordered all documents seized […]
You've seriously got to be kidding me. Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress "trying to protect their own" if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI's raid of a representative's office. Yet not long after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded on […]
It looks like at least one, unnamed House Democrat will be making an effort to turn the public's focus once again on the NSA surveillance program if Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is named to succeed Porter Goss at the CIA. According to Time magazine, the anonymous Dem (and there's no reason given for granting […]
Former House Minority Leader Tom DeLay announced late today that he's quitting Congress. According to DeLay, cold, political calculations were the reason for the move. In an interview Monday with Time magazine, DeLay -- facing both criminal charges and the political fallout from his close association with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- said that even […]